Special Issue on Clouds and Service Oriented Architectures

As emerging technologies, Clouds and Service-Oriented Architectures
(SOAs) attract
attention worldwide, ranging from casual Internet users to IT giants
(e.g. Microsoft and
Google). At the same time, the innovations of Clouds and SOAs also
offer many interesting
avenues of research for scientific communities. Recent advances in
Cloud and SOAs,
including computational power, storage, and networking, and
infrastructure innovations, are
providing exciting opportunities to make significant progress in
understanding and solving
complex real-world challenges. Such challenges typically require a
system-level approach
that models a complex system at different levels of abstraction, helps
to develop sound
architectures for addressing separate system requirements and concerns,
and integrates
diverse sources of knowledge on the system’s components and their
interactions.

The purpose of the special issue is to collate efforts and
achievements on the research of
Clouds and SOAs. This special issue will focus on fundamental issues on
research and
development of Clouds and SOAs as well as new challenges in modelling
and simulation of
novel Clouds and SOAs. The relevant topics include, but not limited
to:
• Cloud Computing
• Service-Oriented Computing
• Grid Computing
• Service-Oriented System Engineering
• System Engineering for Cloud Computing
• Web Services
• Peer-to-Peer Computing
• Service Composition and Integration
• Real-time systems
• Dependable Cloud Systems
• Industrial Case Study